ImportedReserved
Kanzan
Pinus parviflora
Imported 1968, grafted long before that
Informal upright · 84 cm · c. 90 yrs
£38,000
Exhibited
The Ledger Maple
Acer buergerianum · Trident maple
Started 1954, and every year of it written down
A broom-form trident with the finest winter ramification in the nursery. It arrived with a ledger — a school exercise book in which its first keeper recorded every repot, feed and prune from 1954 until he died in 2009.
£24,000
Available
No tree leaves here on the strength of a photograph. Come and walk round it first — we will hold anything for a fortnight while you decide. Delivery is by hand, in our own van, anywhere in the British Isles.
Every tree goes with a year of aftercare: repotting when it wants it, winter cover, and a standing invitation to bring it back if it sulks. Most people use it. Nobody has ever been charged for it.
Arrange a viewingor ring the nursery on +44 1273 841 209
Through the year
- SpringBronze shoots, pale as paper
- SummerA flat green table of leaf
- AutumnOrange for a fortnight, then a hard red
- WinterBare, and the whole point
The tree
- Style
- Broom · hokidachi
- Age
- About 140 years old
- Training
- In training since 1954 · 72 years
- Height
- 78 cm
- Spread
- 96 cm
- Pot
- Unglazed Tokoname oval, Yamaaki
- Keeping it
- Full sun, and more water than you think in July — a canopy this dense sheds rain rather than catching it. Defoliate partially in June, never twice in a year.
Where it came from
Grown from a cutting taken in Osaka in the early fifties, imported to Kent in 1954 by Gerald Voss, and kept by him for fifty-five years without a single season missed. The ledger comes with it. We have added to it since 2011 in the same hand-ruled columns, which is not sentiment so much as the only honest way to sell a tree this old.